How many working days in year 2016?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2016 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.
Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 2016.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Friday, 1 January, 2016
2. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 24 March, 2016
3. Good Friday : Friday, 25 March, 2016
4. Easter Monday : Monday, 28 March, 2016
5. General Prayer Day : Friday, 22 April, 2016
6. Ascension Day : Thursday, 5 May, 2016
7. Whit Monday : Monday, 16 May, 2016
8. Boxing Day : Monday, 26 December, 2016
And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 27 March, 2016
2. Pentecost : Sunday, 15 May, 2016
3. Christmas Day : Sunday, 25 December, 2016